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Res Ipsa Loquitur........................pg. 2
To Infinity and Beyond...............pg. 3
International Law Fellowship.....pg. 4
Wednesday, 9 April 2014 SBA Weekly
Wesley Russ ‘15
Web Editor
The SBA met for their weekly
meeting on Monday, April 7, at
noon in the Fox Seminar Room.
Here is what happened:
First Year Senator Selection
An amendment to the constitution that would alter the selection of the 1L SBA Senators was
proposed and discussed. Presently, 1L Senators are selected from
within the First Year Council. Under the proposed amendment, the
1L class would have the opportunity to elect their SBA representatives by popular vote early in the
fall semester.
The amendment was prompted by concerns that when sections
elect their FYC representatives, it
is not always clear that membership on FYC is the sole avenue
for being selected as a 1L Senator.
Additionally, as FYC’s role is limited primarily to planning social
events, a popular election for 1L
Senators might increase the diversity of SBA.
Some representatives voiced
concern that 1Ls would lack sufficient exposure to their fellow
classmates early in fall semester
to make an informed decision regarding SBA representatives, and
that working to ensure 1Ls know
that their representatives will
come from FYC could be a preferable option.
The constitutional amendment on 1L Senator selection, in
addition to the previously proposed constitutional amendment
regarding LLM representatives
will be revisited at the next SBA
meeting.
Committee Chairs Selected
SBA Committee Chairs have
been selected, having been recommended by Vice President Ashley
Singletary-Claffee and approved
by the Executive Board. The process of assigning senators to committees is now underway.
Coffee with Professors
The previously proposed
morning coffee program with
professors was discussed. For a
variety of logistical purposes, it
was decided that it might be best
to wait until next semester to hold
the event.
Puppies!
Since inclement weather prevented a puppy event from being
held during Health and Wellness
Week, the event has been rescheduled for the final day of classes
this semester. Efforts are also underway to reschedule the nutritionist presentation.
The Newspaper of the University of Virginia School of Law Since 1948
UVA Law Hosts 31st Annual
Softball Invitational
Volume 66, Number 17
around north
grounds
Congratulations to
Kevin Richards and
Grace Bielawski for
winning the 85th Annual Lile Moot Court Competition!
Thumbs down to
UVA failing to win the
31st Annual Homerun Bros and Softball
Hoes Mixer.
Thumbs up to Joby
Ryan’s piece on ending the “Not Gay”
chant.
Thumbs up to OKCupid for using its
vast influence over
basement dwellers to
make Firefox even less likely to
properly handle Java.
photo courtesy Heather Diefenbach
Heather Diefenbach, ‘16
Columns Editor
The UVA North Grounds Softball League (NGSL) hosted more
than 117 teams from more than
60 law schools this past weekend
as part of its 31st annual Softball
Invitational. The weekend was
extremely economically successful, with the biggest turnout ever.
The event raised $20,000 for Children, Youth and Family Services,
Inc. of Charlottesville (CYFS).1
CYFS works throughout central
Virginia to help children affected
by poverty, abuse, and neglect,
to provide local children with
a chance for a successful future
by working with families of all
ages. NGSL has been donating
to CYFS for fifteen years, totaling $205,000. NGSL also donated
$3,000 to PILA, which helps law
students affected by the prospect
of sub-$160k salaries to provide
UVA law students a chance for a
successful future.
Emily Hankin, one of two tournament directors, commented
that “Andrea and I were really
pleased with the weekend—the
weather was beautiful and everyone had a blast. . . . Everyone in
NGSL has been working so hard
to prepare for the tournament, so
it was nice (and a relief) to see all
the games and social events run
without a hitch. While we were
disappointed that no UVA teams
won, it just provides further motivation for next year!”
Although UVA did not take either divisions’ championship this
year, an anomaly that has only occurred one other time since 1995,
there were many exciting developments for our six teams competing in the invitational.
The story starts with #MensOrangeGold (a.k.a. UVA Men’s
Orange): an underdog story. With
UVA Co-Rec Blue
a team song called “Hate Being
Sober,” the team’s notoriety at the
invitational was certainly predictable. Rumor has it Men’s Orange
had trouble scoring this invitational, which may have been due
to their request that the tournament not run out of morning after
pills this year. Although they may
have lacked talent at the plate,
the team was foaming with balls,
taking on Florida Coastal, last
year’s champs, in the first game
of the invitational. What was
more impressive than their 1 run
was the 5 ejections the team accumulated, making them one of the
most known teams of the tournament. When Columbia Black
heard mention of Men’s Orange,
they responded, “Are those the
drunk guys?” Members of Men’s
Orange believe they lived up to
all that was expected of them. CoRec Orange did even better than
their all-male counterpart, winning an entire game and arguably
sporting UVA’s best outfits of the
weekend.
Despite their skill, the Gold
teams did not proceed to the
championships as hoped, ruining many students’ brackets and
pleasing NGSL’s bookies. Co-Rec
Gold lost to Georgetown Blue
in the quarterfinals. Although
they were certainly intimidating
warming up to bat with a sledgehammer, Men’s Gold fell to Ave
Maria 12-4 in the quarterfinals.
Both Blue teams did extremely
well this tournament, making it
further than the Gold teams in
both divisions. Men’s Blue made
it to the semifinals, where they
fell to Florida Coastal, the eventual champions of that division.
Co-Rec Blue fought it out all the
way to the championship, where
they lost to Duke Diamonds. Not
only were the Blue teams the
most successful of our school’s
teams in the invitational, but they
also were the most responsive to
the Law Weekly’s inquiries. Taylor Steffan, a Co-Rec Blue athlete
praised the invitational as “one of
the most fun things about being at
UVA Law. . . . Captains John Kane
and Kate Dumeer were amazing
at fostering the right levels of
fun without losing our competitive edge, and the team was filled
with the kind of people you want
to have as friends for life.”2 Men’s
Blue participated in a lively group
discussion with Law Weekly reminiscing about the weekend.
Tyler Gregory Grant, Men’s
Blue Athlete, “thought [the] team
gelled well together and was happy to meet some really neat guys.”
Outside of loving the camaraderie
of the team, Men’s Blue players
had nothing but compliments for
each other regarding their onand off-the-field performance. Sir
Grant wanted everyone to know
that “[Mr. Oliver] didn’t commit
an error the entire tournament
and has a cannon for an arm.” In
response, Thomas Lee Oliver III
praised back, “Tyler hit so many
home runs I lost count.” Captain
Donald Reinhard chimed in with
accolades for both players, “Tyler
Grant once ran from third base to
home so quickly that the umpire
decided mid-game to extend the
length of the base paths to make
things more fair. And Trey Oliver set a new record for hard line
drives caught for outs with 342.”
Amidst the compliments, Messrs.
Grant and Reinhard were concerned for one of their players,
they and others had heard rumors
that one of their ranks was “taking
supplements for several weeks to
prepare for Friday’s home run
fest and now has to have Tommy
John surgery after playing catcher
for two straight games.”
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Thumbs down to
Al Sharpton being
an informant for the
FBI. Malcolm X never
would have broken the code of
the streets. Thanks, Obama.
Thumbs
down
to HBOGO crashing during the Game
of Thrones premier.
ANG was forced to resort to Redtube for its weekly dose of incest
porn with terrible plotlines.
utter.
Thumbs up to Masters Week beginning.
No girls allowed, a
tradition unlike any
Thumbs down to
the Australian government’s decision to
deploy the wee baby
Prince George to help find the
missing plane. The baby doesn’t
even know how to read a radar.
Thumbs
down
to the SBA having
to cut Virginia Law
Women an alimony
check for its discussion, Beyond
Booksmart.
jokes.
Thumbs up to the
Law School’s internet for sucking a little
more than ANG’s
Thumbs down to
UVA MensOrange being dismissed from
their own tournament
for lack of standing.
Pour one out for
Mickey Rooney.
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VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY
Letter to the Editor
For Dear Ol’ UVA
I am a dyed-in-the-wool-Wahoo.
My father is an alumnus of The
University. My mother, an alumJoby Ryan ‘05
Contributor
na (“with Highest
Distinction,”
she
is quick to point
out). My sister lived on the Lawn as
a Fourth Year. I’m a graduate of the
Law School myself, but my love for
UVA starts long before that. I mean,
I learned the Good Ol’ Song in diapers. As a kid, my Christmas List
consisted nearly entirely of items
from the Mincers’ catalog. I remember Shawn Moore and Chris Slade.
I watched Terry Kirby and Bryant
Stith and John Crotty, and imitated
Junior Burrough and Harold Deane
in my driveway for hours. My roots
run deep.
I love this school. I love its teams.
I love its Grounds. But most of all,
I love its people. I love it so much
that last June I walked away from
my job at an elite Washington D.C.
law firm and returned to Charlottesville to work for The University’s mission.
And so it was a great day for
me and ‘Hoos everywhere a couple Sundays back when the Cavs
stomped past Memphis en route
to their first Sweet Sixteen appearance since the magical 1995 run.
I watched the Memphis game
here in Charlottesville, texting my
folks and my sister (who was at
the game, face painted). I cheered
when Anderson found Nolte for
the exclamation point. And I stood
and clapped when Coach Bennett
cleared the bench. As the players
left the court in triumph—in that
most joyful moment for us life-
long ‘Hoos—the band struck up
the Good Ol’ Song. Our fans in the
arena rose to their feet, put their
arms around their neighbor… and
I cringed.
Guys, the “not gay” chant during the Good Ol’ Song has got
to stop. It is not worthy of this
school. It is not worthy of this
team. It is not worthy of this community. It is not worthy of us. I presume that many do it out of habit
or inertia, and not out of spite; but
stop for a moment and let’s think
about it: what’s the point? It’s not
witty. It’s not clever. It’s not playful. Here’s what it is: mean-spirited
and hurtful. That’s not us. We are
Men and Women of Honor. Anonymously screaming “not gay!” as a
non sequitur in a fight song? There
is no honor in that. Some may respond that I’m
making a mountain out of a molehill. That the chant is simply a silly
thing college kids do, and that it
carries no malice. I agree that most
who join in the chant likely mean
no ill will. But here’s the thing:
when thousands of people are
screaming it, it’s tough to ferret out
the hateful from those going with
the flow. Mobs don’t parse all that
finely. And our gay friends and
roommates and colleagues who
endure the brunt of this “tradition”
are hurt just the same. No matter
the intent, the chant comes off as,
well, as exactly what it is—thousands of people asserting in chorus
that gay people are unwelcome and
excluded here in our community. I
ask again, is that worthy of us? Is
that our collective best self?
Let’s get down to brass tacks:
do you think there is something
wrong or inferior about being gay?
I know I don’t. And I’m confident
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
that we don’t. So let’s stop chanting
to the world that we do.
It is such an easy fix! All we have
to do is just decide that we won’t
say it anymore. And decide that
we won’t stand for it. This is not
something requiring a white haired
administrator to hand down some
official University policy. We can
do this ourselves. I know the people in the UVA community. I work
with the students and alumni every
day. I eat with them. I work out and
play ball with them. If the person
next to any of them in the stands
asked them to please stop chanting “not gay” during the Good Ol’
Song because it made him uncomfortable, the vast majority would
oblige. Well, I am asking. Please, do
not join the chant this weekend. Or
ever again. And we can all ask. We can ask
our roommates, and our teammates, our fraternity brothers and
sorority sisters, our parents and our
neighbors. It takes ten seconds. Just
say to the person next to you at the
start of the game, “if you wouldn’t
mind, I would really appreciate
you not chanting ‘not gay’ when
they play the Good Ol’ Song today. It is not a good look for us. Go
‘Hoos!” It’s that easy.
The Cavs hoops team had a great
year. We came to expect the best
from them night in and night out.
Now that the season is over, let’s remember that Joe and Akil and Malcolm and London and the gang are
not the only ones representing our
school and our community. We are
UVA. We are all UVA. Let’s expect
the best of us, too.
Go ‘Hoos!
Joby Ryan, ‘05
Virginia
Law Weekly
COLOPHON
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*The following Letter to the Editor is printed as received on April 7, 2014. No
text has been changed or omitted in the printing of this letter.
Dear Virginia Law Weekly News “Editor”1,
Let me be the first, and hopefully not only, person to congratulate
you on such an interesting and vivacious April Fools Edition of the
paper. I’m so glad to see the Law Weekly finally has enough content
to fill more than four pages. Along with a readership of tens (if not
dozens!), I live in weekly fear that the Virginia Law Weekly’s slow and
timely demise will one day catch up with it. Imagine, without the SBA
and wholly made up satirical content, the law weekly might just be a
pamphlet with a large photo on it. Compared to the paper of the days
of yore, I would hate to see the Law Weekly become a shell of a shell
of what it once was.
I’d also like to congratulate you on one other item. As an occasional
background source or helpful citizen over the years, I’ve been happy
to answer such difficult and complex questions such as “How is your
name spelled?” or “What’s going on?” After several mentions, you’ve
now finally gotten the correct number of letters in my name. Thank
you for listening!
While I admit, the numerical simplicity of “Mtthews” is attractive,
I regret to inform you that you’ve once again missed the mark. Even
though I’m not a Super Dillard, I’d be happy to sit down with you
and discuss proper vowel usage. I would hate for a fellow Wahoo to
accidentally apply to Qunnn Emnnuel or The Department of Justtce.
Consider for a moment how embarrassing it must be to attach your
name to a series of sloppy and easily correctable errors on something
circulated to peers, professors, employers, incoming students, and
then preserved on the internet for all who google you to find. Quelle
horreur! Am I right?
I also want to note your willingness to jump right in and make fun
of yourselves. In the March 26th edition, the SBA column incorrectly
called Andrew Lanius a 3L Senator. Mr. Lanius did not run for nor was
he selected for such a position. He came in second in an uncompetitive
election to represent the entire school on the university wide Student
Council. This, of course, makes him Student Council Representative
Lanius or, to be a bit wordy, Andrew Lanius, Law School Representative to the Student Council. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Why
didn’t we know this plainly obvious and well-publicized fact?
Naturally, using Student Council Representative Lanius’ proper title
would fill up even more space. So I really appreciate your meta reference to him as Senator Lanius in your April 2nd edition. It was a keen
and insightful joke on the Law Weekly’s previous and oft-repeated errors and an ironic comment on the Law Weekly’s desire to fill space.
Well done!
Finally, I’d like to thank you for your strong support of our school’s
effort to reduce its environmental impact. Since so much of ANG is recycled, I can’t imagine a better exemplar of efficient reuse on grounds!
I know putting together a four page weekly must take literally minutes of your time, and I greatly appreciate you taking a crack at producing a semi-regular publication. If nothing else, it shows such moxie!
Fondly,
Kyle Mathews
-1
Perhaps, To Whom It May Concern would be more appropriate here.
Maybe quotes around editor? It’s not clear what titles are ceremonial and which
titles involve “work.”
Sarah Brown ‘15
Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Endres ‘15
Executive Editor
Chritina Albertson ‘16
Production Editor
Columns Editor
Heather Diefenbach ‘16
News Editor
Web Editor
Wesley Russ ‘15
Managing Editor
Collin Peck ‘15
email: [email protected]
Faculty Forum Editor
Stephen Ham ‘15
Entertainment Editor
John Todd Garcia‘15
Contributor: Joby Ryan ‘05
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Columns
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Moot Court in Space
Space… the legal frontier. These
are the voyages of the Extramural
Moot Court Team.
Its yearlong mission: to explore
strange new legal
issues; to seek out
new facts and new substantive
law; to boldly moot where no man
has mooted before.1
Captain’s Log. Star Date
28032014.
My journey began back in Sep-
and going nowhere.
Our initiation over, those of us
who survived were given commissions into the Moot Court Team
Fleet. I was assigned to the Manfred Lachs International Space
Law Competition.2 That was when
I met my fellow space voyager, Jordan Carson ‘16. The McCoy to my
Spock.3 We bonded over Klingon
blood wine.
After fitting celebrations on our
assignments, we set into preparation and research. As intense as
you can imagine the selection process into Star Fleet is, the real work
had only just begun. Very little in
tember. It was then that I first tried
out for Moot Court, little realizing
how far it would take me. Yes, in
retrospect, I had always dreamed
about visiting space [law], but
like every explorer of the [legal]
heavens, I had to start here on the
ground. Along with several other
hopefuls, I participated in the
Moot Court tryouts, the ground
stage of my training. The tryout
problem was a regular Kobayashi
Maru. As with the best of hypothetical appellate fact patterns,
this one was a true no-win situation where no argument could
ever show one side any more correct than the other. However, we
struggled on, as so much of law
school (and space camp) seems to
be banging our heads into walls
the earthbound common law you
learn in 1L applies to the advanced
legal frontier of outer space. With
the large amount of research required, and the very limited time
constraints we had to work under,
the research and writing really felt
like a training montage. It was just
enough to advance the plot, and
see us arrive at the tournament
with briefs in hand, ready to partake in humanity’s last great adventure.
Of course, exploring space [law]
is not without its disadvantages.
Those brave souls who journey
among the stars make great sacrifices, leaving their homes and
loved ones for long periods of
time, sometimes missing important milestones in the lives of
Matt Endres ‘15
Executive Editor
friends and family. Jordan and I
missed the Thursday Keg and the
opening night of the Libel Show.
Such sacrifices were hard to bear,
and I often found myself questioning whether the mission was really
worth it. However, for those lucky
few who have been enchanted
by the song of the sweet siren of
space [law], the call is too alluring
to deny.
We were able to mitigate our
damages through altering our return flight plan. Frowned upon
by Star Fleet perhaps, but I never
knew a Federation Captain to be
a stickler for the rules. Through
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increasing our re-entry trajectory
and coming in hot down Route 29,
Jordan and I were able to splash
down in Charlottesville in time
to attend the final performance
of the Libel Show.
But I digress. As sweet as the
journey home always is, the
EXMC4 Board sent us to space
[law] for a specific mission: to
boldly moot where no team
has mooted before. The tournament was filled with competitors from across the galaxy.
The alien court system was indeed foreign to us, the judges
belonging to something called
the ICJ.5 It had procedures that
are strange to our world, such
as calling the judges “your ex-
cellency,” instead of “your honor.”
The issues became “submissions,”
and council, “agents.” Our briefs
were “memorials.”
Our first moot of the day found
Jordan and I going head to head
with the team from Georgetown
Law. Georgetown was last year’s
champion and host of this year’s
tournament, so in effect we found
ourselves matched up against a
pair of Romulan Warbirds on the
far side of the neutral zone. Daunting, perhaps. But all of our research and training was in preparation for this moment. We set our
phasers to kill.
The moot proved as equally
matched and grueling as when
Kirk fought the Gorn in “Arena.”
In the end, however, we mooted admirably enough that the
Metrons let us leave with our lives,
and high scores. The afternoon argument was not quite as successful. While we emerged victorious
from the morning encounter, our
ship suffered structural damages,
and we lost warp capabilities.
Also, we had to switch sides, and
Congratulations, #MensOrangeGold -- Florida Coastal never stood a chance.
argue the afternoon for the respondent. The respondent in this fact
pattern had a much weaker position, so we redirected all remaining power to the forward shields.
In the end, however, it was all
for naught. We flew into the competition with great excitement and
“Faith of the Heart.” And while I
greatly enjoyed my opportunity to
explore space [law], in the end, it
turned out we were only redshirts.
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--Warning: long and attenuated metaphor ahead. Not for
the weak of mind or body.
2
That part is real. See
www.iislweb.org.
3
We spent a decent part
of the car-ride space flight arguing over who would be Kirk, and
settled on this compromise.
4
Extraterrestrial Moot
Court.
5
Interstellar Court of Justice.
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Monroe Leigh Fellowship in International Law
continued from page 1
Continues Namesake’s Commitment to Public Service Despite the Blue team’s bro-
Stephen L. Ham, ‘15
Faculty Forum Editor
Now in its eleventh year, the
Monroe Leigh Fellowship in International Law provides funding
to Virginia Law students pursuing a public service international
law project of their choosing during the summer between years in
law school or immediately after
graduation. Since its inception in
2002, the Fellowship has provided
financial assistance to twenty-three
law students, including the three
students—Melissa Kathleen ReillyDiakun ’14, Erika Trujillo ’15, and
Reedy Swanson ’16—just named
recipients for 2014.
“There’s an awful lot of pressure
to just go directly into private practice,” remarked Ned Leigh, Monroe
Leigh’s son, in a recent interview
with his sister, Elizabeth Leigh, and
Professors Deena Hurwitz and John
Norton Moore, who select each
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year’s
recipients.
Although its initial capital was not expected to last
as long as it has, Mr. Leigh said, the
Fellowship’s continued financial
strength over ten years after its establishment has helped it provide
some of the most well-endowed
grants to students interested in public service.
“We’ve been very lucky at Virginia,” added Professor Moore. “This is
a fabulous program that honors one
of the top international lawyers in
the history of the United States.”
Monroe Leigh was born in rural Virginia on July 15, 1919. After
graduating from Virginia Law in
1947—where he was Editor-inChief of the Virginia Law Review—
Leigh went on to hold numerous
high-level private and public sector
positions.
While he was a longtime partner at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., Leigh embraced the
highest echelons of public legal
service. Between 1954 and 1960,
Leigh worked in the Department of
Defense, helping to implement the
Marshall Plan in postwar Europe as
Assistant General Counsel for International Affairs. During the Ford
Administration, Leigh was Legal
Advisor to the Department of State,
making him one of the most important international lawyers in the
U.S. government. Later, between
1981 and 1982, he was President
of the American Society of International Law.
Leigh was also involved in extremely high-profile litigation arising out of national security emergencies. He worked on amicus
briefs for the American Society of
International Law in Banco Nacional
de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398
(1964), which was a direct result of
the Cuban government’s seizure
of U.S. citizen-held property following the Cuban Revolution, and
Dames & Moore v. Regan, 453 U.S.
654 (1981), which was a direct result
of the Reagan Administration’s executive orders suspending litigation
and judgments against Iran following the Iranian Revolution.
Later in his career, Leigh was an
adjunct professor at Virginia Law,
teaching a course on International
Trade. Even on the family farm,
Elizabeth Leigh explained, her father “was always teaching and
mentoring. He was a behind-thescenes kind of person, but he was
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always mentoring in small ways.”
Leigh was also a major voice
in the debate on the International
Criminal Court, said Professor
Moore. Ned Leigh recalled, “I’d
always known about my father’s
other work, but what I had not appreciated was his really equal interest and dedication to the human
rights side of the field.”
Elizabeth Leigh agreed with this
sentiment. “Towards the end of his
career, the human rights aspect was
a big focus.”
In its early years, the entire $10,000
Fellowship would be awarded to a
single student—a “very generous”
grant, according to Professor Hurwitz. “Soon,” she elaborated, “we
realized that it could go farther. Dividing it up between two or three
students has been great.” The list
of institutions in which Fellowship
recipients have worked is indeed
impressive, ranging from the Office of the Prosecutor in the Special
Court for Sierra Leone to the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, Criminal Division, in
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Ned Leigh said that the Fellowship’s continuing ability to support
multiple students on a diverse array
of international law projects is “a
very good comment on the school’s
management of this and all the other endowed programs.”
Professor Moore agreed. “This is
a tradition we hope to be continuing.”
Additional information on the Monroe Leigh Fellowship in International
Law can be found at https://www.law.
virginia.edu/html/publicserv/monroe.
htm.
love, the team really knew how
to hold down our turf. Captain
Reinhard longingly remembered how “[d]uring a close
quarter-final game, co-captain
Greg threw a ball in from left
center right on target, and that
target was our opponent’s dick.
#OurHouse . . . . The same guy
that got hit genuinely thanked
Greg and me after the game for
the hospitality over the weekend.” Off the field Men’s Blue
served as fashion icons. “[Shortstop] Dan has made the Rayban Wayfarers at a ball game
so popular that Jeter and other
MLB shortstops have taken up
the trend.” Innovators in the
legal world, “Greg and Cam remain locked in a deadly competition to win the tourney’s coveted ‘Best Bald Head’ award.
Cam’s leading in the technical
score, but Greg has made it a tie
Wednesday, 29 April 2014
with his style points.”
Outside of our own teams,
teams from more than fifty
schools showed up
to compete. Although we here
at UVA are spoiled with softball
as often as we may desire the
weather permits, some of these
other teams hadn’t swung a bat
since last year ’s invitational. A
member of Cornell Black was
basking in the collegiality of the
weekend, “Plus, who doesn’t
like day drinking?” Hit it and
Acquit it, Columbus School of
Law’s team at Catholic University, lost a little more sorely,
lamenting, “Next year I want
to bring an all star [sic] team.
We brought a fairly weak team
because the wrong team won
our intramural championship.”
Despite their poor showing on
the field, they did have some
positive comments about the
tournament. “I like how competitive it is . . . LOVE that you
guys are rejecting girls [from
your teams.]” When pushed
about this showing of paternalism, the student in question had
to get back to brief-writing. At
the end of the weekend, it was
clear that all students involved
enjoyed the athleticism and camaraderie of the invitational,
and can’t wait to return next
year.
--See www.cyfs.org.
Taylor Steffan, Commentary on the 30th Annual UVA
Law Softball Invitational, April
7, 2014.
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